A month ago, Prof. Dr. Branko Marušič passed away, the “historian of the western Slovenian borderlands”, whose expertise and generosity made a significant contribution to the establishment of the research group Heritage on the Margins. After completing his undergraduate thesis, he joined the Institute for Ethnic Studies, but soon returned to his native region. He…
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LEDINEK LOZEJ, Špela, PISK, Marjeta. Collections, walks, and cultural landscapes : Slovenian-Italian cross-border heritage initiatives. Traditiones : zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, letn. 50, št. 1, str. 79-105, ilustr. ISSN 0352-0447. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/10519/9681, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2021500106. [COBISS.SI-ID 95009539], [SNIP, Scopus do 27. 11. 2025: št.
Špela Ledinek Lozej, a member of the programme group, actively collaborated with the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia in preparing a multinational nomination for the inscription of Alpine food heritage in UNESCO’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. The proposal for a community-based programme for safeguarding Alpine heritage – submitted to UNESCO by Switzerland on behalf…
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From 9 to 11 February 2026, the international winter school Euregio Seminar 2026, titled Borders, Memory and Territorial Transformations in the Alpine Region, took place in Trento, Bolzano/Bozen and Bressanone/Brixen. The programme was jointly organised by the University of Trento and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Špela Ledinek Lozej also took part in the school.…
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The article, which discusses the development of the heritage initiative Walk of Peace and its cross-sectoral embeddedness in the cross-border area between Slovenia and Italy, is an abridged version of an article published in the monograph Border-Straddling Heritages: Containment, Contestation, and Appreciation of Shared Pasts, edited by Ali Mozaffari and David Harvey, as Volume 10…
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To conclude the year, our program group hosted two guest researchers for our monthly reading sessions/meetings. In November, we were joined by Janine Schemmer to discuss the article ‘Silenced Memories and Practices of Un-Silencing: Mobilities in a Dynamic Alpine Border Landscape ‘ (co-authored with Marion Hamm; published in Cultural Analysis 19, 2021). In December, Mirna…
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On Wednesday, 17 December 2025, we organized the closing event of the Episkop project, a year-long ZRC SAZU programme carried out within the framework of the European Capital of Culture GO! 2025. The central part of the event was a discussion with Neda Rusjan Bric and Mattijs Maussen on the legacy of the European Capital…
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On 14 and 15 November 2020, a meeting of producers, researchers, institutions, and Alpine communities was held in Grenoble, where participants exchanged experiences and good practices for preserving Alpine food heritage, titled Les rencontres du patrimoine alimentaire alpin: Expériences et bonnes pratiques à travers les Alpes. The thematic round tables highlighted knowledge about plants, pastoral…
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Janine Schemmer, a cultural anthropologist from the University of Vienna and guest of the Heritage on the Margins program within the Development Funding Scheme at ZRC SAZU from 1 to 30 November, delivered a lecture on 12 November 2025 in the Seminar of the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology titled Cruise ships and the urban everyday…
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The AlpTextyles Final Event in Lyon on October 21, 2025, titled Following the Thread: Perspectives on Circularity, Heritage and Tourism in Alpine Textiles, marked the culmination of a three-year effort dedicated to safeguarding and revitalising the textile heritage of the Alpine region across six countries. Organised within the Interreg Alpine Space Programme and realised under…
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